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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Publication checklist
    Please ensure that the German abstract does not contain any translations from the
    original publications. These could be considered translation plagiarism and lead to rejection of the publication. If you include figures from the original work, they must be referenced. If you include modifications, they must be referenced with "modified according to ...".
    Title: The title is generally comprehensible. The title does not contain any subject-specific abbreviations.
    The title does not contain more than 150 characters, including spaces. List of abbreviations The list of abbreviations is complete. The list of abbreviations does not contain any abbreviations listed in the Duden or abbreviations of the current SI units.
    Introduction: The introduction summarises the current state of the art on the research question and includes current literature citations. The research question and, if possible, a working hypothesis are clearly formulated.
    The subchapter "Research question" follows the introduction.
    Material and methods: For common methods that are not central to the work, reference can be made to the publication. Sources of material should only be listed in the case of special methodological procedures that are a genuine part of the work of the work should be listed. The methods listed are described completely and clearly.
    Statistical evaluation procedures are described in full. The ethical vote, if required, is cited. The animal experiment permit, if required, is cited.
    Results: Figures and tables are integrated into the text flow with reference. External data are marked.
    The ratio between figures/tables and text is balanced.
    Summary: The summary is no longer than one A4 page. Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum and, if possible, resolved.
    Bibliography: The bibliography has been checked for completeness. The formatting follows the guidelines of the publisher.
    Orthography and grammar have been checked.
    The hyphenation function has been activated.
    Page numbers were formatted in Arial.

Author Guidelines

Creating manuscripts

We welcome submissions for the individual success sections of the Berlin Medical Journal. Authors can use our format template for writing manuscripts. Further formal requirements are summarised in the Instructions for Authors. In particular, the maximum number of characters permitted for the respective section must be taken into account. The number of characters includes the bibliography and spaces. Please submit manuscripts in the most current file format (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx)!

Submission of manuscripts

After completion of a manuscript, it should be sent - preferably electronically - to the respective editorial office for evaluation. Before submission, it should be checked once again whether all formal requirements have been taken into account in accordance with our Instructions for Authors. Manuscripts will only be evaluated in terms of content if all author's instructions have been observed. After the evaluation, the corresponding (co-)author will be informed of the evaluation result in writing as soon as possible.

For each article, we request an introductory lead text of about 500 characters (with spaces). The introductory text should first classify the topic in question and then inform as precisely as possible about the content of the article in a few sentences. This introduction should also be formulated as an English summary.

Five keywords should be formulated that aptly describe the topic of the article.

Before your manuscript is published, you will receive galley proofs for correction from the publisher by e-mail.
Please make only unavoidable changes (typographical errors) and then return them directly to the publisher.

Figures/tables

The image width for figures in the article text should ideally be either about 82, 125 or 170 mm (1-column, 1 ½-column, 2-column).

Font sizes in figures should preferably not be less than 6 point and not exceed 12 point. The best font size would be 10 point, which roughly corresponds to the basic font of the booklet.

Please do not use transparencies or fill patterns such as slanted or cross-hatching.

Please do not supply pixel images (result of a scan, digital photograph, etc.). If this cannot be
please ensure a minimum resolution of 300 DPI.

If possible, please create your illustrations with a drawing programme such as PowerPoint, Illustrator or Corel Draw.

Please always place your illustrations, including captions, in Word at the place in the manuscript where the illustration is to appear later.
where the illustration is to be used later in the manuscript. Figure and table captions
as well as the corresponding source(s) should be in font size 8.5.

Please always provide your illustrations as separate files (e.g. Excel or PowerPoint). It would be ideal
ideal if you supply your images as EPS or PDF files. If you do this, however, please also send the original
the original file of the graphics programme from which the EPS/PDF was written. For pixel graphics
For pixel graphics you can use the formats EPS, TIF, JPG, BMP or PNG.

Name your image files with the surname of the first-named author and the image number, al-
e.g. Meier01.tif., Meier02.tif etc. If, exceptionally, you have a table as an image file,
and this table has its own count, name it MeierTa01.tif.

If you have specific colouring wishes, please colour your illustrations in different shades of only one colour, because only the leading colour (currently shades of blue) is used in the booklet. This way we can
we can also take over your colouring. If you do not colour anything, we will colour at our own discretion.
own discretion.

Please create tables as Word tables in Word, not as PowerPoint graphics or Excel spreadsheets. Even
It would be even more unfavourable if you did not create a table with the table function, but only as a series with the help of tabulator steps.
with the help of tabulator steps.

Figures/tables that are taken over without changes should be cited with: Author's name, year, page number.

Figures/tables that are adopted with modifications should be cited with: In accordance with (name of
of the author), year, page.

Figures/tables that are prepared independently do not need to be cited.

Formulas

Please enter formulas with a formula editor only when necessary. A term like "x = 1"
for example, does not have to be entered with an editor.

The correct formatting of formulas is usually to italicise text, variables and small Greek letters and not to italicise numbers, brackets and capital Greek letters. If you were to do this consistently throughout your paper, including the rest of the text, it would be
advantageous. The settings for italics can normally be made in the formula editor,
so that the formulas are automatically formatted correctly.

Please number the formulas in the right margin with Arabic numerals.

Guidelines for citing literature
To facilitate editorial work, authors are asked to adhere to the following rules when citing literature. It is also important that the bibliography is not too long!
Citation technique in continuous text

No footnotes are used in the Berlin Medical Journal.

Sources of verbatim quotations are cited directly after the quotation, stating the author (in principle without first names), year of publication and title.
first names), year of publication and page number in brackets. Example: "..." (Akerlof, 1970, p. 489)

The first letters of first names are only given if two authors with the same surname are cited in one article or if co-authors have identical surnames when citing a source. Examples: "..." (Friedman, M., 1970, p. 77) "..." (Musgrave, R. A./Musgrave, P. B./Kullmer, 1984, p. 109)

Sources of analogous quotations are either cited directly after the text in the same way as literal quotations or integrated into the text.
or integrated into the running text. Examples: ... (cf. Stiglitz, 1987, p. 1 ff.)
As Stiglitz (1987, p. 1 ff.) has pointed out, ...

Corporate authors (Sachverständigenrat, Deutsche Bundesbank, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft,
etc.) are treated as authors.

If an article refers to several sources by the same author with the same year of publication, the years are given as follows.
the years should be specified as follows: 1988a, 1988b, etc.

Bibliography

The article should be accompanied by a bibliography listing the sources referred to in the text under the heading "Literature" as well as suitable additional references in alphabetical order of the authors.

In the case of an extensive bibliography, it is advisable to structure the bibliography according to the content of the article, classifying the sources under appropriate subheadings. The sources should be listed according to the following patterns:

All sources should be listed in font size 10.

All sources must be concluded with a full stop. For English/German language journal articles: Author's surname, first name abbreviation, title of article, in: name of journal, Vol. X/X. Jg. (year), if applicable No. X/No. X, page references. In the case of paginated journals, the issue number (English: No. X; German: Nr. X) is omitted; for German journal articles, instead of "Vol. X", "X. Jg." Written.

For monographs: Surname, first name abbreviation, title, X. ed. place of publication plus year.
For the first edition, the term "X. Aufl." )
For contributions to collective works: Surname, abbreviation of first name, title of contribution, in: surname of editor, abbreviation of first name of editor (ed.), title of volume, X. ed., place of publication plus year, page references.

Example: Literature
Federal Ministry of Economics (ed.), Energy Report of the Federal Government, Bonn 1986.
Deutsche Bundesbank, Längerfristige Entwicklungen der Wertpapieranlagen der Kreditinstitute, in: Deutsche Bundesbank, Monatsberichte, January 1987, pp. 35-41.
Dürr, E., Die soziale Marktwirtschaft - Ausgangssituation, Programm, Realisierung, in: WiSt -Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 17. Jg. (1988), pp. 270-276.
Eucken, W., Die Grundlagen der Nationalökonomie, 8th ed., Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1965.
Hohenberger, C., Spörrle, M., Motivation and motivation-related phenomena in the context of economic action, in: Landes, S., Steiner, E. (eds.): Psychologie der Wirtschaft, Wiesbaden 2013, pp. 103-121.
Malinvaud, E., Wages and Unemployment, in: The Economic Journal, Vol. 92 (1982), pp. 1-12.

Internet sources are presented as follows: Last name, first name abbreviation, title of website/article, online, URL: Link (date of retrieval). author= "o.V." if applicable.
Example: Schneider, P., Discounts and exclusivity are the most important motives for social shopping, Online,
URL: https://yougov.de/news/2020/12/01/rabatte-und-exklusivitat-sind-die-wichtigsten-moti/ (retrieval date:
01.02.2021).

original

The criteria for authorship are defined in accordance with the Vancouver Statement. The first step is to present the material and methods, including statistics (approx. 1000 words); this should be done while the study is still underway. The second step is to present the results without evaluation (approx. 350 words); graphics are better than tables here. The discussion (approx. 1000–1350 words) first presents a brief summary of the most important results, followed by a defense of the model. The mechanisms of the results are then interpreted and compared with the results of similar studies. The clinical significance of the most important aspects should be discussed. This is followed by limitations of the study to enable a realistic classification; the conclusion should be short. The last step is the introduction (approx. 350 words), which must be concise in order to attract the reader to the article; this is followed by the abstract and references.

Case Report

In addition to the formal requirements, ethical guidelines must also be observed when preparing a case report. For example, it must be ensured that no studies on humans or animals have been carried out for the case report. If images of patients who can be clearly identified are used, written consent for publication must be obtained. In any case, patients must consent to their story being published. As a rule, up to four author positions can be filled by a doctor in a case report. Cases are chosen for a case report that are interesting and relevant to the medical community. Case reports can, for example, include patients who were not included in a clinical study. To prepare a publication, please use the general instructions for preparing a manuscript.

Master Thesis

Your publication is in PDF format. If you are unable to generate PDF files, you can also submit it in doxs/doc format. If your publication consists of several documents or other file formats, please contact us before submitting.

Declaration of consent. Please send us the declaration of consent for publication. If you are submitting a dissertation, you are explicitly granting us permission for publication. Please submit the permission signed by hand together with your printed copies. If your publication is under a CC license, it is not necessary to submit the publication contract. The prerequisite is that the document contains a license notice.

Literature searches

Literature research is the search for scientific literature on the question that you want to address in your thesis. In science, you refer to existing knowledge. That is why you start every scientific paper by researching the literature. However, since new keywords have to be researched again and again throughout the entire writing process, literature research runs through the entire writing process. There are two methods available for literature research: unsystematic literature research and systematic literature research. When publishing literature research, follow the general guidelines for publication.

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Copyright

With acceptance for publication, the author transfers to the Berliner Wissenschaftliche Verlagsagentur the exclusive, spatially and temporally unrestricted right to reproduce and distribute his or her contribution in physical form, the right to reproduce and make it available to the public, the right to include it in databases, the right to store it on electronic data carriers and the right to distribute and reproduce it, as well as the right to use it in other ways in electronic form, for the duration of the statutory copyright. This also includes forms of use not yet known today. The author's mandatory secondary exploitation right laid down in Section 38 (4) UrhG after the expiry of 12 months after publication remains unaffected.

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